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Ministry of Steel
NMDC organises Plantation at Landscape Garden and adopts two Tigers as part of Swachhta 2.0
India’s Eco-Friendly Miner and the country’s largest producer of Iron ore, NMDC organised a plantation at Landscape Garden and adopted two tigers - a Royal Bengal Tiger and a White Tiger on 27th October, 2022 at Nehru Zoological Park, Hyderabad.
NMDC has consistently been a frontrunner in environment conservation and sustainable development. As part of Swachhta 2.0. The company has initiated various conservation efforts to help protect the flora and fauna of the country. Since the start of the Swachhta campaign on 2nd October, 2022 NMDC has conducted numerous Cleanliness Drives, Plantation Drives, Prabhat Pheri, Swachhta Run and Awareness campaigns on the importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The Plantation Drive at the zoo is a brainchild of the Environment Division, Resource Planning Department at NMDC and is a step towards reinforcing biodiversity conservation efforts.
The Plantation and Tiger Adoption Drive was conducted in the presence of Shri Sumit Deb, CMD, NMDC; Shri Amitava Mukherjee, Director ; Shri S. Rajashekar  Curator, Nehru Zoological Park and officials of NMDC, Nehru Zoological Park and Forest Department, Government of Telangana.
Speaking on the occasion, Shri Sumit Deb said that NMDC has always been a responsible miner and is committed to the protection of endangered flora and fauna. As Miners to the Nation, NMDC holds significant accountability in safeguarding the interests of the people and making the planet sustainable. Further he added that the magnificent Royal Bengal Tiger is our country’s national animal and the White Tiger is a rare species. It is imperative to note how important biodiversity is in sustainability for the people and planet. As part of our efforts in preserving the planet through Swachhta 2.0, we hope to play our part in biodiversity conservation through the adoption of these two tigers,
Shri Amitava Mukherjee said that a sustainable future demands aggregated efforts towards combating desertification and managing forests whilst preventing biodiversity loss. NMDC believes that our actions today will determine the future of the nation and is honoured to have been a part of the plantation and adoption initiatives at Nehru Zoological Park.
The adoption and plantation drive was followed by a visit to the zoo.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution
Ministry of Railways is granted the first recognition under the Scheme for Recognition of Standard Development Organisations
BIS has launched a scheme for recognition of SDO's as the umbrella organization for steering India’s standardization efforts
The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Shri Ashwini Kuma Choubey in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today informed that a number of government organizations have applied to Bureau of Indian Standards  for recognition under the BIS scheme of Standards Development Organizations . The Research Design and Standards Organization , Ministry of Railways, has been granted the first recognition under the Scheme for Recognition of SDOs in the country.
At present, there are a number of domain specific Standards Developing Organizations  in the country that develop standards in their respective areas. With increasing convergence of technologies, there is also a need for better coordination of work among all standardization bodies in the country working in different sectors.
As per BIS Act, 2016, BIS may recognize or accredit any institution in India or outside which is engaged in standardization. As the National Standards Body, it is the responsibility of Bureau of Indian Standards , to ensure that there is synergy in the standardization work taking place in the country and that there is no overlap or duplication of the work carried out by other Standards Developing Bodies.
With the objective of ensuring one national standard for one subject in the country, BIS has launched a scheme for recognition of SDO's as the umbrella organization for steering India’s standardization efforts, by recognizing these bodies and wherever necessary, recognizing the standards developed by these bodies as Indian Standards.
PIB Headquarters
1.53 Kg of Gold worth Rs. 63 lakhs and US Dollars worthRs.14.30 lakhs seized by Customs at Airport.Two arrested.
On Sunday night,one Shavushan Bare, 37, of Ramanathapuram who had arrived from Colombo by Air India Flight AI-274 was intercepted at exit.On persistent questioning he admitted to have concealed bundles containing gold paste in rectum. On personal search 03 bundleswere recoveredand on extraction 290grams of gold valued at Rs. 11.9 lakhswas recovered and seized.
On Monday morning, two Srilankan ladies,SasikaRupini, 49, and Vasanthi,49, who were bound for Colombo by Air India flightAI-273 were intercepted by the AIU officer in the departure terminal, when they were proceeding towards security hold after clearing immigration. On examination of theirhand bags,20300 US Dollars in denominations of 100 amounting to Rs. 14.30 Lakhswere recovered and seized under Custom Act read with FEMA 2015.
In another two cases today Mohamed Rifayudeen, 25, of Nagapattinnum and Seeni Ibrahim, 49, of Chennai and who had arrived from Dubai by Air India Flight AI-906 were intercepted at the exit. On personal search one gold chain weighing 115 grams was recovered from pant pocket of Rifayudeen. On further search of their person 06 bundles containing gold in paste form were recovered from their rectum. Onextraction 667grams of gold was recovered. Thus in total782 grams gold valued at Rs. 32.18 lakhs was recovered. One passenger was arrested.
In another case today, one Hikmathullah, 40, of Tiruchirapalli who arrived from Abu Dhabi by Etihad Airways Flight EY238 was intercepted at the exit. On persistent questioning, he admitted to have gold in rubbery spread form kept concealed in his rectum. Three bundles of gold in paste form were recovered. On extraction 457 grams of gold valued at Rs. 18.80 lakh was recovered and seized. The passenger was arrested.
Thus in total1.53Kg gold valued at Rs. 63 lakhs and US Dollars worthRs. 14.30 lakhs were recovered and seized under Customs Act, 1962 read with FEMA 2015.
Further investigation is under progress, according to the press release issue by Commissioner of Customs, Chennai International Airport.
Ministry of Finance
Both direct and indirect tax departments employ data analytics, big data and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in tax administration to make it more effective, free of official discretion, business and taxpayers friendly
The Government is using data analytics, big data and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in tax administration to make it more effective, free of official discretion, business and taxpayers friendly. This was stated by the Union Minister of State for Finance Shri Pankaj Chaudhary in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
Data analytics is being used to identify fiscal risks, suspicious trends and patterns and risky entities in Customs and GST by leveraging big data, the Minister added.
INDIRECT TAXES
The Project ADVAIT  has been rolled out in 2021, as a flagship analytics project for Indirect Taxes, by Central Board for Indirect Taxes and Customs . The project uses capabilities of big data and Artificial Intelligence as well. ADVAIT has been envisaged with a threefold objective of enhancing Indirect Tax revenue, increasing taxpayer base, and supporting data-driven tax policy, the Minister stated.
Further, the Minister stated, ADVAIT provides business outputs in three formats:
- Reports,
- Interactive Dashboards, and
- Analytical Models
The Minister stated that the functionality of each output is specifically designed to aid and assist officers in their day-to-day operations that range from reporting and ensuring tax compliance to detecting tax evasion. The portal has advanced analytical capabilities including data matching, network analysis, pattern recognition, predictive analytics, text mining, forecasting and policy studies. ADVAIT has been designed and developed in a knowledge-driven data ecosystem using some of the most advanced data warehousing business intelligence solutions, keeping in view the 3 I’s:
- Information,
- Insights, and
- Intelligence
DIRECT TAXES
The Minister stated that the Central Board for Direct Taxes  is using techniques as data analytics, big data and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for:
- Identifying cases with High Risk of tax evasion and high likelihood of income addition, for further scrutiny.
- Identifying taxpayers to send reminders for advance tax payments.
- Prompting specific taxpayers about apparent mismatches in ITRs and transactions made, so that taxpayers may revise their returns.
- Using big data techniques for storage and effective search of information by income tax officers.
- Using data analytics over networks of taxpayers visualize the taxpayers relationships and to flag potential high-risk transactions.
- Using data analytics techniques for segmentation of taxpayers to focus campaign on high- risk cases from tax evasion perspective.
Prime Minister's Office
PM’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka
PM’s upcoming visit to Sri Lanka
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi will be visiting Sri Lanka on 11th and 12th May, 2017.
In a post from his Facebook account the Prime Minister said:
"I will be in Sri Lanka for a two-day visit starting today, 11th May. This will be my second bilateral visit there in two years, a sign of our strong relationship.
During my visit, I will join the International Vesak Day celebrations in Colombo on 12th May, where I will interact with leading Buddhist spiritual leaders, scholars and theologians. It is my honour to join these celebrations with President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
My visit brings to the fore one of the most abiding links between India and Sri Lanka- the shared heritage of Buddhism.
During my last visit in 2015, I had the opportunity to visit Anuradhapura, a UNESCO world heritage site and a leading centre of Buddhism for centuries. This time, I will be privileged to pay respect at the revered Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, also known as the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.
My visit will commence in Colombo with a visit to the Seema Malaka at the Gangaramayya temple where I will take part in the traditional lamp lighting ceremony.
I will be meeting with President Sirisena, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe and other eminent dignitaries.
I will also visit the up country region of Sri Lanka where I will inaugurate the Dickoya Hospital that has been built with Indian assistance, and have an interaction with the Indian-origin Tamil community.
I will be sharing more from Sri Lanka on social media. You can watch all my programmes in Sri Lanka live on the ‘Narendra Modi Mobile App.’"
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Online training programme on ‘Prevention of Trafficking of Women & Children’ and ‘Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013’ held at NIPCCD Regional Centre, Mohali
NIPCCD conducts workshop on 'Protecting Children from Online Abuse' for the Educators of SCERT at DIET
An online training programme on ‘Prevention of Trafficking of Women & Children’ was organized for Officials of the Anganwadi Services Scheme at NIPCCD Regional Centre, Mohali from 23rd to 24th May, 2023. Another online training programme on ‘Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2013’ was organized for the School Principals & Members of Internal Committee on 25 May, 2023 at NIPCCD Regional Centre, Mohali. A total of 62 participants attended the programme.
Taking a step further in the Campaign to Protect Children from Cybercrime, a Workshop on 'Protecting Children from Online Abuse' for the Educators of SCERT at DIET was organized from 22-24 May, 2023 at NIPCCD, New Delhi. 61 teachers participated in the workshop.
Online Training Programmes & Orientation Workshop on JJ Act & Rules & Adoption Regulations and POCSO Act, 2012 were organized at Regional Centre, Guwahati & Regional Centre Bengaluru respectively.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
23.45 crore e-KYC transactions executed via Aadhaar in August
Almost 220 crore Aadhaar authentications done in August, Aadhaar usage and adoption continues to grow
UIDAI successfully executes 1.46 crore Aadhaar updation requests from residents during the month
24.2 lakh fresh Aadhaar enrolments happened in August; Aadhaar saturation near universal among adults in India
Aadhaar usage and adoption by residents is witnessing sizable growth indicative of how it is increasingly supporting ease of living for residents. In August, 219.71 crore authentication transactions were carried out via Aadhaar, a growth of more than 44% against July 2022.
A majority of these monthly transaction numbers were done by using fingerprint biometric authentication , followed by demographic authentications and OTP authentications.
As of end August 2022, a cumulative number of 8074.95 crore Aadhaar authentications have been carried out so far, as against 7855.24 crore such authentications by the end of July.
The number of e-KYC transactions executed via Aadhaar was 23.45 crore in August. The cumulative number of e-KYC transactions so far increased from 1249.23 crore in July to 1272.68 crore by end of August.
An e-KYC transaction is done, only with the explicit consent of the Aadhaar holder, and eliminates physical paperwork, and in-person verification requirement for KYC. Aadhaar e-KYC service is increasingly playing an important role for banking and non-banking financial services in providing better and transparent customer experience and ease of doing business.
In August, residents successfully updated 1.46 crore Aadhaars, and cumulatively till date  65.01 crore Aadhaar numbers have been successfully updated following requests from the residents.
These updation requests are related to demographic as well as biometric updates done at both physical Aadhaar centres, and by using the online Aadhaar platform.
Whether it is e-KYC, Aadhaar enabled payment system  for last mile banking, or Aadhaar enabled DBT, Aadhaar has been playing a stellar role in supporting the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of Digital India.
Aadhaar, a digital infrastructure of good governance, is a catalyst of both ease of living and ease of doing business. The digital ID is helping various ministries and departments in the centre and at states in improving efficiency, transparency and delivery of welfare services to the targeted beneficiaries. Around 1000 social welfare schemes in the country run by both centre and states have been notified to use Aadhaar till date.
Besides, more than 1,528.81 crore of last mile banking transactions have been made possible through the use of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System , and the network of micro-ATMs so far, including nearly 22 crore such transactions in August alone. It has enabled financial inclusion at the bottom of the pyramid.
Ministry of Electronics & IT
Digital India Corporation observes Engineer’s Day
Conducts Online Interaction of Visvesvaraya PhD Fellows working in the area of Artificial Intelligence & Analytics under Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme
An Online Interaction of Visvesvaraya PhD Fellows working in the area of Artificial Intelligence & Analytics under Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme for Electronics & IT, with MD & CEO Digital India Corporation  and team was conducted on Sep 15, 2020.
Visvesvaraya PhD Scheme was initiated by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology  with the approval of Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs  in 2014 with an objective to enhance number of PhDs in ESDM & IT/ITES sectors. 908 full-time, 304 part-time PhD candidates and 158YFRFs are enrolled at 97 institutions including IITs, NITs, Central & State Universities etc. 170 PhD Candidates have submitted their theses through the PhD portal.
35 PhD fellows working in the area of AI were selected to present their research work. 11 PhD fellows presented their research work during the said interaction.Mr. Mayank Sharma and Mr. Pranshu Jain from IIT Delhi, Mr. Harsh Bhasin from JNU Delhi, Mr. Sayan Sikdar from NIT Arunachal Pradesh, Mr. Dharamsotu Bheekya from University of Hyderabad, Mr. K Narayana Rao from Andhra University College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam and Mr. Kailash Wamanrao kalare from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur have presented their work in Machines Learning, Deep Learning, parallel computing and wireless sensor network research area.
Ms. Chamarty Anusha and Mr. D. Venkata Subbaiah from Andhra University College of Engineering Vishakhapatnam have presented their work on Object Detection and recognition of camera images from Machine Intelligent.
Mr. Narayan Changder from NIT Durgapur has presented his work on Novel Algorithms for Multi-Agents Coalition Structure Generation.
Ms. Kirti Kumar has presented her work on Automated Detection of Cyberbullying on Social Media.
The research work was highly appreciated by the MeitY officials.
The session concluded with encouraging and motivating words from MD & CEO, DIC, Mr. Abhishek Singh who appreciated the work being done in the area of AI & Analytics. Scholars at advance stages of their research were suggested to focus on the ways their results/technologies be applied in practical scenarios. They were also asked to reach out to DIC/MeitY regarding the issues faced by them while pursuing their research work in terms of computational capabilities; collaborations with ministries, departments, researchers & experts; access to right data etc.
India celebrates Engineer's Day every year on September 15 as a tribute to the greatest Indian Engineer Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya on his birthday. He was the engineering pioneer of India.Considering his outstanding contributions to the society, Government of India conferred 'Bharat Ratna' on this legend in the year 1955.
Ministry of Railways
Indian Railways continues feeding the infrastructure sector and ramps up the supply chain during the COVID-19 lockdown
From 1st April to 11th April 2020, Railways has transported more than 1.9 lakh wagons of coal and over 13000 wagons of petroleum products
Indian Railways has continued feeding the infrastructure sector during the period of lockdown due to COVID-19.
During last 11 days from 1st April to 11th April 2020, Railways loaded and carried 192165 wagons of coal, and 13276 wagons of petroleum products . Details are as follows:
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|
Sl.
No.
|
|
Date
|
|
No. of wagons of
coal
|
|
No. of wagons of petroleum products
|
|
1.
|
|
01.04.2020
|
|
14078
|
|
1132
|
|
2.
|
|
02.04.2020
|
|
18186
|
|
1178
|
|
3.
|
|
03.04.2020
|
|
17474
|
|
1163
|
|
4.
|
|
04.04.2020
|
|
18038
|
|
1079
|
|
5.
|
|
05.04.2020
|
|
17211
|
|
791
|
|
6.
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|
06.04.2020
|
|
17410
|
|
731
|
|
7.
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|
07.04.2020
|
|
18215
|
|
1450
|
|
8.
|
|
08.04.2020
|
|
18225
|
|
1273
|
|
9.
|
|
09.04.2020
|
|
17387
|
|
1536
|
|
10.
|
|
10.04.2020
|
|
18137
|
|
1338
|
|
11.
|
|
11.04.2020
|
|
17804
|
|
1605
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
192165
|
|
13276
An emergency freight control centre is working in the Ministry of Railways to monitor the uninterrupted movement of materials fuelling the power, transport and infrastructure sectors and other essential commodities by rail. Indian Railways along with Ministry of Home affairs is keeping in touch with State Governments to sort out any operational issue if they arise.
Ministry of Jal Shakti
Government of India
As per the National Register of Large Dams  maintained by the Central Water Commission based on the information provided by the project authorities, India has 1175 number of large dams  which are more than 50 years old . Further, the Country is having 227 number of large dams having more than 100 years of service life . State-wise number of these dams is enclosed as Annexure-l.
Dams in India are owned and operated either by the State Governments or Central and State Public Sector Undertakings. A few dams are owned by private entities. The safety of dams in India is the principal concern of the State Agencies/Organizations who own the dams. Dam owners generally carry out pre-monsoon and post-monsoon inspection of their dams. Some States have also constituted Dam Safety Review Panels for comprehensive audit and required follow up action on their dams. The life of a dam is normally considered till such time that it performs its intended functions, without jeopardizing the safety of people living in its vicinity.
The Dam Safety Bill, 2021 has been passed by both the Houses of Parliament. The Dam Safety Bill, 2021, inter alia, provides for surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of the specified dams for prevention of dam failure related disasters.Proposals for replacement of old dams, if required, need to be formulated by the dam owners.
This Information was given by the Minister of State for Jal Shakti, Shri Bishweswar Tuduin a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Prime Minister's Office
PM expresses gratitude to Nurses on International Nurses Day
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed gratitude to Nurses on the occasion of International Nurses Day.
“International Day of the Nurse is a special day to express gratitude to the phenomenal nurses working round the clock to keep our planet healthy. Presently, they are doing great work towards defeating COVID-19. We are extremely grateful to the nurses and their families.
Inspired by Florence Nightingale, our hardworking nursing staff personify abundant compassion. Today, we also reiterate our commitment to keep working for welfare of nurses and devote greater attention to opportunities in this field so that there is no shortage of caregivers”, the Prime Minister said.